Assistant Professor

Permanent Position, 36.5 hours per week (1.0 FTE)

The Future Mobility: Energy education group within WMG continue to see rapid growth in our undergraduate, post-graduate, degree apprenticeship and industry short courses. We now have a vacancy for a new post, teaching across our automotive and vehicle electrification programmes.

This is a teaching focussed role, and your primary aim will be the successful design and delivery of our education programmes.

We are looking for someone who has experience in electric machines and power electronics in an academic and/or industrial setting, along with experience of designing teaching materials, and the ability to use a range of techniques to adapt to the needs of learners. You will need to have a teaching qualification or accreditation or be willing to seek accreditation when in post.

You will work with key stakeholders within WMG, the wider Warwick community and partners in industry to update courses and teaching materials and deliver teaching, tutoring and project supervision across our full range of courses. We welcome applicants with teaching experience from a similar role elsewhere in academia, and also those with significant industry experience of automotive engineering and / or vehicle electrification programmes who are seeking a career change to an academic teaching role.

This is an exciting opportunity for you to develop your own professional profile and work as part of a successful team, contributing to the development of its teaching and learning activities. In return we will provide a great range of benefits which include an attractive pension scheme, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays and Christmas closure, some fantastic savings on a wide range of products and services, and excellent learning and development opportunities. Alongside our existing flexible working policy, the university is launching a new hybrid-working model from Sept 2021 with significant opportunities for flexible and remote working aligned with individual circumstances and the day-to-day needs of the role.

At WMG we are committed to supporting staff to achieve their potential. We currently hold the Athena SWAN Silver Award, and the University of Warwick holds an Institutional Silver Award: a national initiative that recognises the advancement of gender equality, representation, progression and success for all in academia. We are supportive of staff with caring responsibilities including a generous maternity/paternity/adoption/parental leave policy, and onsite childcare facilities.

Interview Date :TBC

**JOB PURPOSE**

To undertake high quality teaching, provide academic leadership and supervise modules in automotive engineering and vehicle electrification and to develop and enhance the reputation of automotive engineering teaching and learning at WMG, both internally and externally.

**DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Teaching and Learning Support**

1. To have academic ownership for courses, modules, design teaching materials and deliver automotive engineering and vehicle electrification education/ teaching across a range of modules.

2. To use appropriate teaching, learning support and assessment methods.

3. To supervise undergraduate and postgraduate student projects as appropriate.

4. To identify areas where current provision is in need of revision and contribute to continuous improvement of automotive engineering teaching and learning.

5. To contribute to the planning, design and development of objectives and resources.

6. To set, mark and assess work and examinations and provide timely and worthwhile feedback to students.

7. To be able to differentiate tasks set for different ability levels using the appropriate media.

8. Where required act as the leader of an element of study (such as a course, module, programme, etc).

9. To challenge thinking, foster debate and develop the ability of students to engage in critical discourse and rational thinking.

**Research and Scholarship**

2. Where appropriate conduct individual or collaborative scholarly projects.

3. To develop and produce learning materials and disseminate the results of scholarly activity.

**Administration and Other Activities**

1. To participate in and develop internal and external networks, for example may contribute to student recruitment, facilitate outreach work and build relationships for future activities.

2. To act as a personal tutor and where necessary be responsible for the pastoral care of students within a specified area.
3. To undertake specific departmental roles as may be required.

4. To engage and attend departmental meetings and to participate, as appropriate, in other committees and working groups within the department, the faculty and the University.

5. To participate in relevant professional activities, for example non-teaching CPD.

6. Ensure compliance with health and safety in all aspects of work and, where appropriate, undertake risk assessments.

7. Where required act as dis